Film Festival
Behind the Wall: Jürgen Böttcher

Sat, 19.01.2019
5:00 PM ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts

This mini-retrospective highlights the work of East German documentarian and painter Jürgen Böttcher. Working within the ideological confines of the GDR, Böttcher's body of work forms an insightful, witty and deeply humane look at the workers, students and artists of the socialist republic. In drawing us into their frustrations, their insecurities and their humour, Böttcher offers up a gently subversive, cinéma vérité-influenced perspective that strives to find the individual within the collective.

Barefoot and Without a Hat, 1964, 25 mins
Washerwomen, 1972, 22 mins
In Lohngrund, 1976, 26 mins
 
Total Running Time: 73 minutes